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Jeremy R. Johnson

Programming Languages (CS 550) Lecture 3 Summary List Processing, Dynamic Memory Allocation and Garbage Collection. Jeremy R. Johnson. Theme. This lecture reviews list processing discusses dynamic memory allocation and garbage collection.

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Jeremy R. Johnson

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  1. Programming Languages (CS 550)Lecture 3 SummaryList Processing, Dynamic Memory Allocation and Garbage Collection Jeremy R. Johnson

  2. Theme • This lecture reviews list processing discusses dynamic memory allocation and garbage collection. • This will allow us to re-implement the list version of the mini language without relying on underlying support for lists. Rather than force the user the explicitly free memory, we will use garbage collection to reclaim unused memory.

  3. Outline • Go over last week’s practice exercises • Review list processing using scheme • List primitives – (), cons, car, cdr, pair?, null? • List functions – length, append, reverse, reduce, map, order

  4. Outline • cons cells and list allocation (uniform size) • List diagrams and list cells • Overlapping list cells and extent • Reference counting • Heap • Garbage Collection • Mark and Sweep • variable size allocation • First-fit • Next-fit • Best-fit

  5. Assignment 3 • Re-implement assignment 2 (mini language with lists) • Allocate cells through cons from a Heap (an array of cells) • Implement Mark & Sweep Garbage Collection • Use symbol table to detect active list variables • Need to be careful with temporary variables used for list constants

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